“I want to see my mommy.”
Owen Underhill is standing on the slope very near to the pipe which juts out of the foliage, and he sees them help the muddy, wild-eyed girl—Josie—out of the pipe. He sees Duddits (a large young man with shoulders like a football player’s and the improbable blond hair of a movie idol) sweep her into a hug, kissing her dirty face in big smacks. He hears her first words: “I want to see my mommy.”
